Dean’s work is often concerned with the play of legibility through the creation of private lexicons. The relation between spoken word performance and its graphic representation, often in the form of private, personal and self-made typefaces, is one key to his work. The otherwise mute objects are inscribed, via clues, or fragments of lettering, with a personalised form of writing, which gives the opportunity of animating the artwork. Here the book operates as a form of sculpture, inscribed with both a personal and bodily form, to be read, spoken or carefully deciphered. Designed by Michael Dean, with Fraser Muggeridge.

‘NOW LEAVES describes leaving and having left. Glossolalia like, against noise, about the bones of a writing, written in tongue graphics legible by reason of the trees with as many words as there are leaves. The percussion of these leaves is f***ing news. The percussion of these leaves is not his news. The percussion of these leaves is not her news. The percussion of these leaves is definitely not their news.’ – Michael Dean

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership:

Michael E. Smith (born 1977 in Detroit) makes sculptures out of cast-offs, waste and other residues of our consumer society. He assembles and manipulates this found material in an unusual way. He isolates objects, makes changes to their form and seeks out the limits of their imaginative power. His presentations are characterized by an intense yet sparse choreography of the exhibition space.

Initially conceived to document three solo shows at de Appel in Amsterdam (2015), Kunstverein Hannover (2015), and S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2017), the publication also gathers new commissioned texts and a reprint that shed light on the artist’s decade-plus practice.

With texts by Martin Germann, Anthony Huberman, Chris Sharp.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Henri Michaux at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 7 February–22 March, 1964.

SM Cat. No 354.

Designed by Wim Crouwel.

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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Mode Kleren Mode at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 18 January–9 March, 1980.

SM Cat. No 667.

Designed by Wim Crouwel, André Toet gen, Geert Schriever (Total Design, Amsterdam).

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Produced on the occasion of Robert Rauschenberg’s 1968 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

SM Cat. No 433.

Designed by Wim Crouwel.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Leo Castelli Gallery on February 1, 1987. Revolving around the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Das Studenbuch”. Leo Castelli had a German-language edition of Maria Rilke’s book with him when he emigrated from Fascist Italy in the 1930s.